His ulcer had been acting up and no wonder. Poland's government had
initiated another smear campaign against him. This time, the
authorities said, he was under investigation for currency violations.
Days before, the state-run television network had played a tape
recording in which he could purportedly be heard discussing a $1
million foreign bank account and bemoaning the fact that he had been
passed up for a Nobel Prize last year. To relieve the pressure, Lech
Walesa, leader of the now banned Solidarity movement, went off with a
group of friends one...